This study investigated the mediating effect of self-talk between positive and negative statements made by teachers and students' academic self-concepts (reading, mathematics, and learning) . Participants were 269 students in grades 3-7 at a middle-class, metropolitan, Australian elementary school. A research assistant administered the following instruments: (1) the "Significant Others Statemen...

The self-reported health item summarizes a wide range of information on health status across several domains of health, and is widely used to measure health because it predicts mortality well (Idler and Benyamini, 1997). We examine whether the characteristics of the interviewer-respondent interaction during the administration of the self-reported health item reflect in part actual health status...

Recent empirical literature (Jeannerod & Pacherie, 2004; Mizumoto & Ishikawa, 2005) purports to challenge the thesis that certain forms of self-awareness are immune to errors of misidentification with respect to the first-person (IEM). I argue, first, that these studies do not present a challenge to the IEM thesis, and furthermore that IEM is indicative of a fundamental distinction between two ...

Increased flexibility and modularisation in higher education complicates the process of learners finding their way through the offerings of higher education institutions. In lifelong learning, where learning opportunities are diverse and reach beyond institutional boundaries, it becomes even more complex to decide on a learning path. However, efficient and effective lifelong learning requires t...

I argue that (subjective) consciousness is an aspect of an agent’s intelligence, hence of its ability to deal adaptively with the world. In particular, it allows for the possibility of noting and correcting the agent’s errors, as actions performed by itself. This in turn requires a robust self-concept as part of the agent’s world model; the appropriate notion of self here is a special one, allo...

Information related to the self tends to be better remembered than other information. Mentalization (i.e., attributing mind to an external entity) is one potential intervening factor in contrasting myself, others “like me”, and inanimate objects. Twenty-seven undergraduates (mean age 23.6 years, 16 women) responded to a Remember/Know (R/K) recognition task. In the study phase, 78 words were pre...

This study examines the relationships between the 2016 presidential election, indirect sexism and women’s self-perceptions, attitudes and psychological well-being. Specifically, this study employs a two by two factorial design with between-subject factors of salient indirect sexism (salient indirect sexism manipulation or control) and the election (before or after) and investigates whether thos...

Three studies tested whether indirect self-presentation actually works as a social influence tactic in the eyes of other people—as prior research has shown that it works for the self—and, if so, whether it works to the same degree for others as it does for the self. Experiment 1 demonstrated that basking in reflected glory, an association with a positively viewed entity, did improve an audience...